In an instant it returned with an acorn in its mouth, and with its paws began to burrow in the earth.

Appropriate to her Jove-like mood, Nature had planted stern thickets of oak-trees along the rocky edge, and "the acorns of our lord of Chaonia" crunched beneath our feet as we walked on.

I guess I'll have some acorns for my breakfast.

Even a herd of swine, eating the acorns under those magnificent oaks of Blenheim, would be cleanlier and of better habits than ordinary swine.

When he had succeeded, he flew off with loud, joyous caws to the top of the house, where I heard him rolling nuts or acorns from the ridge, and flying to catch them before they fell off.

And, by that time, Squinty had found the hole where the boy had covered the acorns with dirt, and Squinty was chewing the sweet nuts.

It'll be slow work at first, but every ring will be a little wider and a little thicker than the last one, and by and by you'll be big enough and strong enough to shed a few acorns within easy reaching distance, and so start a nice little nursery of your own from which you can saw wood some day.

There was half a foot of scarlet, gold, bronze, red and purple leaves on the ground, and every step I made I kicked acorns about to rustle and roll.

"Mem, To turn off Peter for shooting a Doe while she was eating Acorns out of his Hand.

He felt, indeed, an assured confidence that, by carrying out fearlessly the principle of self-government, he had 'cast an acorn into time,' which could not fail to bring forth the fruit of political contentment.

As for the trees, large as they arewell, even the acorns on the ground seem like second cousins to the old corks lying beside them!

Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate, but he took an acorn out of his pocket and popped it in.

If they paused it was to gossip or to abuse the boys for not bringing more acorns to the sack.